PROGRESS REPORT HAND INAPRIL HAND 2014 TO NETWORK SEPTEMBER 2014 PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 CONTENTS 02 Executive summary 3 Our results 4 Operations across the network 6 Hand in Hand India 6 Hand in Hand Afghanistan 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS Hand in Hand Eastern Africa 13 This report covers the activities of the Hand in Hand network. We operate Hand in Hand Southern Africa 16 in India, Afghanistan, Eastern Africa and Southern Africa, with support and fundraising operations in Sweden, the UK and the US. Funding 19 We’re always working to improve our reports. Questions? Suggestions? Please Lessons learned 20 contact [email protected]. Looking ahead 21 Tailoring student | Gatsibo district, Rwanda Damaris Musyoka | Mat manufacturer | Muumando, Kenya Spaghetti making | Nahar Shahe district, Afghanistan Self-Help Group Treasurer Peter Maina (right) with Hand in Hand trainer David Thuku | Gatundu, Kenya Cover photos, clockwise from top-left: Florida Mukarugema | Shop owner | Rwanda Najiba | Baker | Afghanistan Benedetta Kalondu | Basket weaver | Kenya Philomena Nduku | Poultry business owner | Kenya Savitah Kanchipuram | Paper plate manufacturer | India PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 03 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Throughout the Hand in Hand network, the period between April and September 2014 has been bound by a single theme: innovation. In the UK and Sweden, we launched long-awaited new websites and made significant strides in securing new funding. And in towns and villages throughout our operating countries, Hand in Hand field staff piloted diverse new programs, all designed to expand and deepen our work fighting poverty with jobs. Dehqan Self-Help Group | Cotton traders | Afghanistan PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF: PILOT PROGRAMS ACROSS THE NETWORK Our team in Afghanistan is piloting the One District One Product program in Bamyan, our newest operating province, at the request of the Afghan government. The concept originated 30 years ago when high-unemployment communities in Japan banded together to produce single products that could compete on a national, even international scale. The Japanese produced mushrooms and mandarins. Our participants, 160 micro-entrepreneurs in two districts in Parwan and Herat provinces, are producing fruits, vegetables and dairy. Five-thousand miles away, Hand in Hand Southern Africa is helping 500 young school leavers in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal succeed as entrepreneurs – our first time exclusively targeting youth in the country. The initiative is a natural and important step in South Africa, where more than half the population is younger than 30. Launched in July, it has already resulted in 286 jobs. A similar pilot in Eastern Africa, still in in its infancy, is teaching students to think about entrepreneurialism the same way they think about maths and English. So far, 40 students at Wango Primary School in Nairobi have started to learn skills that will help them start their own businesses when they’re older. If the pilot is successful, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa hopes to expand it into a Florida and daughter | Shop owner | Rwanda full-scale program over the months and years to come. PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OUR RESULTS 04 OUR RESULTS The Hand in Hand network has supported 1.8 million jobs to date. 1,257,136 1,160,192 96,944 BUSINESSES ADDED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT Mar 2014 SEp 2014 8.4% H Cumulative businesses ACHIEVEMENT TOWARDS STRATEGIC PLAN 1,812,729 1,663,929 2,755,000 1,949,536 148,800 1,812,729 JOBS ADDED o7% APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT BELOW TARGET (SEP 2014) MAR 2014 SEP 2014 8.9% H Cumulative jobs 1,286,949 66% SEP 2014 SEP 2014 MAR 2016 1,162,389 0F OVERALL TARGET ACHIEVED OVERALL TARGET TARGET (MAR 2016) Cumulative jobs 124,560 We’ve achieved 93% of the network-wide target for MEMBERS ADDED September 2014 set out in our Strategic Plan, published in APR 2014-SEP 2014 summer 2013. GROWT MAR 2014 SEP 2014 H In order to meet the plan’s overall target, we’ll need to 10.7% create 942,338 jobs by March 2016. Cumulative members CONTACT HAND IN HAND INTERNATIONAL CEO JOSEFINE LINDÄNGE FOR DETAILS PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OUR RESULTS 05 TRENDS BY COUNTRY Cumulative businesses 1,125,200 1,056,400 959,000 915,000 856,000 90,000 73,600 37,100 33,400 24,600 26,700 12,400 15,700 10,200 7,100 2,000 2,600 2,900 3,570 4,800 India Eastern Africa Southern Africa Afghanistan Cumulative jobs 1,573,300 1,481,300 1,382,000 1,305,000 1,229,000 116,400 116,100 86,600 90,700 74,300 56,200 44,200 42,000 32,700 8,400 3,000 3,900 4,300 5,300 7,000 India Eastern Africa Southern Africa Afghanistan Sep 2012 Mar 2013 Sep 2013 Mar 2014 Sep 2014 CONTACT HAND IN HAND INTERNATIONAL CEO JOSEFINE LINDÄNGE FOR DETAILS Self-Help Group members | Kancheepuram district Indian flatbread | Kancheepuram district Dairy farmers | Kancheepuram district OPERATIONS ACROSS Dairy farmer | Kancheepuram district THE NETWORK: INDIA Self-Help Group members | Kancheepuram district PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: INDIA 07 1,125,194 1,056,388 959,064 In a country where social custom and government regulation both create barriers 68,806BUSINESSES ADDED to women’s self-employment, Hand in Hand APR 2014-SEP 2014 has helped create 1,573,281 jobs for female GROWT micro-entrepreneurs. Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H 1,573,281 7% Cumulative businesses 1,481,302 91,979 68,806 JOBS ADDED Number of new businesses 28,468 APR 2014-SEP 2014 supported by HiH in the six National six-month GROWT months to Sep 2014 average of new formal businesses* Mar 2014 Sep 2014 6% H Cumulative jobs Hand in Hand business growth versus the national average *This figure captures the average half-yearly number of private companies with limited liability registered between 2004 and 2012 in India. Source: World Bank, doingbusiness.org. MEET SAVITAH Low prices, high margins, zero waste. For paper plate manufacturer Savitah the key to success has been straightforward – but it hasn’t been easy. Savitah enquired as far as 1,350 miles away to source cheap raw materials, knowing they could make or break her business. Today she consistently undercuts her competitors while maintaining a healthy 27 percent Savitah Kanchipuram | Paper plate manufacturing | Tamil Nadu, India profit margin, boosted by the sale of offcuts to paper merchants. Her monthly net income, once zero, is now 21,500 rupees (US $350). Eager to share her success, 31-year- old Savitah has recruited five members into her group, and was recently elected its leader. “The best thing about the support of the group has been that it made me stand on my own two feet, and now I am able to inspire others to do the same,” she said. PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: INDIA 08 In the past six months, almost At the same time, loans grew 12 percent – 60,000 disadvantaged women joined exactly in line with the previous half-year a Hand in Hand Self-Help Group. growth rate. US $250 MIL 1,006,943 US $223 MIL 948,074 US $26.6 MIL LOANS DISBURSED APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROWT H 58,869MEMBERS MOBILIZED APR 2014-SEP 2014 12% GROWT Mar 2014 Sep 2014 6% H Mar 2014 Sep 2014 100%REPAYMENT RATE Cumulative members Cumulative loans OTHER PROGRAMS Uniquely within our network, Hand in Hand India operates four complementary programs to help boost the job creation model. The programs help members access better healthcare, improved educated, a cleaner environment and life-changing civil rights training. Cumulative to Increase 6 months Cumulative to % increase Mar 2014 to Sep 2014 Sep 2014 EDUCATION Panchayats (local administrations) 1,220 22 1,242 2% reached Number of children enrolled in school* 210,006 29,876 239,882 14% ENVIRONMENT Water Resource Management: hectares 8,591 452 9,043 5% covered HEALTH Anemic women reached 21,100 3,894 24,994 18% Toilets constructed 9,362 259 9,621 3% CITIZENS’ CENTERS Centers established 3,343 16 3,359 – E-literacy trainees 516,481 47,513 563,994 9% PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: INDIA 09 OUR reach IN INDIA With a population of 433 million – about the same as the US and Mexico combined – demand for programs in Hand in Hand India’s operating states has never been higher. So instead of expanding, we spent the last six months deepening our presence in existing areas, recruiting 58,869 new members. Long-term, we plan to expand into Uttarakhand. Beyond India, pilot programs in Myanmar and Cambodia are underway. IN OPERATION PLANNED PAKISTAN UTTARAKHAND NEPAL RAJASTHAN BHUTAN CHINA BANGLADESH MADHYA PRADESH ODISHA MYANMAR MAHARASHTRA THAILAND KARNATAKA BAY OF BENGAL CAMBODIA TAMIL NADU PUDUCHERRY CONTACT DONOR RELATIONS OFFICER SARA LÖFBERG FOR DETAILS Raziq | Poultry farmer | Kaldar district Nafisa | Food canner | Nahar Shahe district OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: AFGHANISTAN Zabor | Honey producer | Marmul district Asifa | Grocer | Nahar Shahe district PROGRESS REPORT APR 2014 TO SEP 2014 OPERATIONS ACROSS THE NETWORK: AFGHANISTAN 11 6,972 4,795 5,289 1,683 3,566 JOBS ADDED 1,229BUSINESSES ADDED APR 2014-SEP 2014 APR 2014-SEP 2014 GROW GROW TH Mar 2014 Sep 2014 32% TH Mar 2014 Sep 2014 34% Cumulative jobs Cumulative businesses With expansion into Jowzjan province, the recruitment of new members has accelerated. 1,229 1,542 22,371 Number of new National six-month businesses supported average of new formal 14,425 7,946 by HiH in the six businesses* MEMBERS MOBILIZED months to APR 2014-SEP 2014 Sep 2014 GROWT Hand in Hand business growth versus the national average Mar 2014 Sep 2014 H *This figure captures the average half-yearly number of private companies with limited liability 55% registered between 2004 and 2012 in Afghanistan.